Key points

A group code-named PLATINUM has been targeting victims in South and Southeast Asia since around 2009. The group uses unmatched vulnerabilities, spear-phishing, and has the ability to create 0-Day and the exploit tools to use them

Vulnerability disclosures have trended up in recent years

Exploit kits accounted for four of the 10 most common exploits of the second half of 2015

Computers that were protected were 3 to 6 times less likely to be infected with malware

Analysis

They talked about Microsoft’s solutions to identity security

Then they talked about Microsoft’s solution to email spoofing

Not a fan of sales pitches in these types of reports

More advertising deeper in the report

Summary

Don’t like that they don’t have key themes or key points the way the Verizon reports do

Definitely need less advertising

These reports should be gifts to the community, and the only advertising should be the branding